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Alexander Street Press Films

Alexander Street Press has a number of ways to integrate films in to your course. You can both link to and embed videos from Alexander Street Press directly in to your course.

To link to a film using a proxied link follow these steps.

1) Select the title of the film you want to link to

2) Underneath the film there is a embed/link link, select that link

 

Alexander Street Press Film Embed/link

 

3) A new pop up box will appear. On this page there is a link, an embed code, and an LTI link. To link to the film using a PURL, copy the link as indicated. Notice that it has the proxy string attached to it already!

 

Alexander Street Press Film Popup Persistent Link

 

Embedding the Video

You can directly embed the video in your Canvas Course using the LTI link as well. For more help embedding Videos contact the OIT Help Desk.

Alexander Street Press Music

Linking and embedding music is also possible through Alexander Street Press. And you can directly link to the entire album or just an individual track. 

Follow these steps to link to an Album.

1) Select the title of the album. 

2) There is a embed/link link below the title of the album, select that link.

 

Alexander Street Press Music Album Embed/Link

 

3)  A new pop up box will appear. On this page there is a link, an embed code, and an LTI link. To link to the album using a PURL, copy the link as indicated. Notice that it has the proxy string attached to it already!

 

Alexander Street Press Music Album Popup Persistent Link

 

You can also directly embed the entire album.

 

Linking directly to an individual track.

1) Select the title of the album

2) On the album page there is a list of tracks.

3) Next to the name of the individual track select the icon for embed/link.

 

Alexander Street Press Music Track Embed/Link

 

4) A new pop up box will appear. On this page there is a link, an embed code, and an LTI link. To link to the track using a PURL, copy the link as indicated. Notice that it has the proxy string attached to it already!

 

Alexander Street Press Music Track Popup Persistent Link

 

You can also directly embed the track.